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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828358503321

Autore

Nettl Bruno <1930->

Titolo

Nettl's elephant : on the history of ethnomusicology / / Bruno Nettl ; foreword by Anthony Seeger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-02881-6

9786613028815

0-252-09023-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

780.89

Soggetti

Ethnomusicology - History

Musicology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: ANTHONY SEEGER -- Introduction: Histories, Narratives, Sources -- I: Central Issues in a Grand History -- 1. The Seminal Eighties: Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology -- 2. Look at It Another Way: Alternative Views of the History -- 3. Speaking of World Music: Then and Now -- 4. A Tradition of Self-Critique: For Beverly Diamond -- 5. Revisiting Comparison, Comparative Study, and Comparative Musicology -- II: In the Academy -- 6. Ethno among the Ologies -- 7. On the Concept of Evolution in teh History of Ethnomusicology -- 8. The Music of Anthropology -- III. Celebrating Our Principal Organizations -- 9. The IFMC/ICTM and the Development of Ethnomusicology in the United States -- 10. Arrows and Circles: Fifty Years of the ICTM and the Study of Traditional Music -- 11. We're on teh Map: Reflections on the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1955 and 2005 -- IV: A Collage of Commentary -- 12. Recalling Some Neglected Classics in Musical Geography -- For Tullia Magrini -- 13. Minorities in Ethnomusicology: A Meditation on Experience in Three Cultures -- 14. Riding the Warhorses: On the Ethnomusicology of Canons -- 15. A Stranger Here?: Free Associations around Kurt Weil -- 16. Music-What's That? Commenting on a Book by Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht -- References -- Index.